AN ACT relating to nursing.
Amend KRS 314.011 to delete the requirement that the Board of Nursing establish limits for specific controlled substances through administrative regulations but leave in place their authority to do so; delete language creating the Controlled Substances Formulary Development Committee; amend KRS 314.042 to delete the requirement for an advanced registered nurse practitioner prescribing or dispensing nonscheduled legend drugs to enter into a collaborative agreement with a physician; authorize an advanced registered nurse practitioner prescribing controlled substances to prescribe without a collaborative agreement if certain requirements are met; provide that any law or regulation that requires a doctor's signature is satisfied by the signature of an advanced registered nurse practitioner.